Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter , however , demurred at this and asked Keiran to help out generally at the event , which he duly did in great style . |
| 2 | But his grandfather he only saw in brief glimpses , when James called in the hope of being given a shilling . |
| 3 | I could no longer talk or laugh freely , as I knew he only approved of serious moods and studies . |
| 4 | One can see , then , a philosophical crux in the very nature of the Ring , one that was certainly apparent and deeply interesting to Tolkien , and one which he furthermore expressed with great care and deliberation . |
| 5 | Without looking back into the car he suddenly drawled in good English : |
| 6 | He suddenly swam into vocal range again . |
| 7 | ‘ When can we go home ? ’ he suddenly enquired in piercing tones . |
| 8 | She smiled calmly back at him , her teeth snapping together when he just laughed in open disbelief . |
| 9 | He nevertheless shared with other critics a concern about the untrained , unregulated , and unsupervised adolescent work-force , and found it impossible to separate completely the behaviour of these young workers from the larger problem of unemployment . |
| 10 | Intended at first for the church , he was sent to Göttingen , but he soon turned to legal studies and the pursuit of mineralogy under Johann Friedrich Blumenbach . |
| 11 | He soon turned to Jewish studies , his interest from childhood , when he had a traditional religious education and learned Hebrew from the Cairo Genizah scholar , Jacob Mann . |
| 12 | Mr Logan , 54 , said : ‘ He normally stayed at top hotels . |
| 13 | He needed no telling twice , but alas the episode was fatal to his position at United Racecourses and he thereupon turned to other activities . |
| 14 | If Ivanov was a spy , then I am sure he obtained far more strategic information by legitimate methods than he ever did by covert means . |
| 15 | He stopped short of issuing a blanket backing for the Tories , saying he would vote Liberal Democrat in his own east London constituency because he still believed in proportional representation . |
| 16 | He still paid with violent headaches , but it could have been so much worse . |
| 17 | But while Mr Stephen 's vote fell , Dr Kumar 's rose by a mighty 6,000 and he still lost to Conservative Michael Bates , beaten by a huge turn-out and the collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote . |
| 18 | He always went to Mass fasting and , for the first time that morning , he was aware of feeling weak , even paradoxically a little sick . |
| 19 | j He always insisted on fresh fish . |
| 20 | He knew that he always operated at full efficiency when driven by anger ; from now on , he was suddenly sure , he was in control of this bloody conference . |
| 21 | He always remained in close touch with the French Protestant community in London and many of his works have bilingual titles . |
| 22 | ‘ For the first half-dozen years of Scrutiny I had no post and no salary , and was hard put to it to make a living , ’ he once wrote in characteristic vein . |
| 23 | Just as he once battled for supreme fitness , he has poured his energy into learning to speak again . |
| 24 | Although Gould might have increased his funds through sponsorship , he wisely insisted on remaining independent of any institution , reserving the rewards of his labours for no one but himself . |
| 25 | Charles Wilson broadly agreed , while Humphrey spoke as if directly coached by the British ( he also anticipated in striking fashion the language of Henry Kissinger in the early 1970s ) . |
| 26 | He also advised on other schemes . |
| 27 | Some of his old friends claim he also flirted with other women and Meli and Marje were not the only ladies in his life . |
| 28 | He also engaged in endless litigation against the media which he considered was misrepresenting him . |
| 29 | He also engaged in open controversy with John Bramhall , Bishop of Derry , about liberty and necessity . |
| 30 | He completed his studies at St Catharine 's College , Cambridge , which he also represented at various games . |